Your Name: Personality, Dr.

Brian Burke
PURPOSE IN LIFE TEST (Crumbaugh & Maholick, 1964)
Instructions: Write the number (1 to 5) next to each statement that is most true for you right now.
1. I am usually: 1 2 3 4 5
bored enthusiastic

2. Life to me seems: 1 2 3 4 5
completely routine always exciting

3. In life, I have: 1 2 3 4 5
no goals or aims clear goals and aims

4. My personal existence is: 1 2 3 4 5

utterly meaningless, without purpose purposeful and meaningful

5. Every day is: 1 2 3 4 5

exactly the same constantly new and different

6. If I could choose, I would: 1 2 3 4 5

prefer never to have been born want 9 more lives just like this one

7. After retiring, I would: 1 2 3 4 5

loaf completely the rest of my life do some of the exciting things I`ve
always wanted to

8. In achieving life goals, I’ve: 1 2 3 4 5

made no progress whatever progressed to complete fulfillment

9. My life is: 1 2 3 4 5
empty, filled only with despair running over with exciting things

10. If I should die today, I’d feel 1 2 3 4 5

that my life has been: completely worthless very worthwhile

11. In thinking of my life, I: 1 2 3 4 5

often wonder why I exist always see reasons for being here

12. As I view the world in relation 1 2 3 4 5

to my life, the world: completely confuses me fits meaningfully with my life

13. I am a: 1 2 3 4 5
very irresponsible person very responsible person

14. Concerning freedom to choose, 1 2 3 4 5

I believe humans are: completely bound by limitations of totally free to make all life choices
heredity and environment

15. With regard to death, I am: 1 2 3 4 5

unprepared and frightened prepared and unafraid

16. Regarding suicide, I have: 1 2 3 4 5

thought of it seriously as a way out never given it a second thought

17. I regard my ability to find a 1 2 3 4 5

purpose or mission in life as: practically none very great

18. My life is: 1 2 3 4 5

out of my hands and controlled by in my hands and I`m in control of it
external factors

19. Facing my daily tasks is: 1 2 3 4 5

a painful and boring experience a source of pleasure and satisfaction

20. I have discovered: 1 2 3 4 5

no mission or purpose in life a satisfying life purpose

SCORING: Add up all the numbers you wrote down (20-100). A score of less than 50 may indicate that
you are experiencing an “existential void,” a lack of meaning or purpose in your life right now…